Re: [Evolution] Well, That Was Special

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:48, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
>     On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 16:40, Donald Henson wrote: 
> >         Evolution locked up. I couldn't get it to respond to anything. I was able to log off. When I logged back in, Evolution was not running so I clicked on its icon. Something happened but Evolution did not start up. I logged off/on again. Same result. Then I used (gasp!) a Windows technique. I rebooted the system. This worked. Evolution came back up like there had never been a problem.
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>     Did you try "evolution --force-shutdown"?  My guess is that you had some hung evolution process (logging off and logging back on does not necessarily kill all processes).
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>     Lonnie Borntreger
>     
No, I didn't. Where's the evolution --force-shutdown button located? I'm joking, of course, but my point is that ordinary users, such as Windows refugees, are not going to take the time to learn how to use the command line. I know. I was one and the first time I tried to transition to Linux, I ran screaming back to Microsoft due to problems just like this, only much worse then. Thanks for the tip, though. If it weren't for people like you willing to help people like me, I'd already be running back to Microsoft.

Don Henson